James Joyce Quotes


James Joyce

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul`s incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

A man`s errors are his portals of discovery.






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